Editing Apollo abort modes (section)

=== Mode IB (one bravo) ===
From {{convert|3000|m}} to 30.5 km <!--That's 100,000 ft in the original-->(100,000 ft), the rocket is tilted eastwards far enough that firing the pitch control motor is unnecessary. After the LES main motor moves the CM away from the rocket, the tower would deploy [[Canard (aeronautics)|canards]] (small wings at the tip). They would force the CM-LES combination to pitch over with the CM bottom forward (blunt-end forward or BEF attitude.) This was necessary because the parachutes stowed at the CM top were only designed to be deployed in a [[downwind]] direction.{{refn|group=note|name=parachutes|As it turned out, however, the parachutes would still successfully deploy even with the CM traveling nose-forward; this was discovered during the [[A-003]] abort test, when the canards deployed, but failed to flip the spacecraft blunt-end-forward due to an extremely high roll rate resulting from a booster malfunction.}}